Hello, I'm trying to install Foreman 1.3 on a Scientific Linux 6.4 machine
running Puppet 3.1.1. I'm new to Foreman, so I just ran the default
installer with the following command and errors:
foreman-installer
Could not set home on user[apache]: Execution of '/usr/sbin/usermod -d
/var/www apache' returned 6: usermod: user 'apache' does not exist in
/etc/passwd
/Stage[main]/Apache::Config/User[apache]/home: change from
/home/staff/apache to /var/www failed: Could not set home on user[apache]:
Execution of '/usr/sbin/usermod -d /var/www apache' returned 6: usermod:
user 'apache' does not exist in /etc/passwd
Could not set shell on user[apache]: Execution of '/usr/sbin/usermod -s
/sbin/nologin apache' returned 6: usermod: user 'apache' does not exist in
/etc/passwd
/Stage[main]/Apache::Config/User[apache]/shell: change from /bin/bash to
/sbin/nologin failed: Could not set shell on user[apache]: Execution of
'/usr/sbin/usermod -s /sbin/nologin apache' returned 6: usermod: user
'apache' does not exist in /etc/passwd
I can't find any postings regarding this behavior; maybe somebody in this
group knows what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for any time and help you can give!
-Brian
It looks like you might have the 'apache' user in a directory service,
but the installer tries to manage a few attributes on the account (I'm
not sure why this is necessary), which is failing.
If you can't avoid that, you could try removing the user and group
resources from
/usr/share/foreman-installer/modules/apache/manifests/config.pp.
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On 18/10/13 17:50, Brian Auron wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to install Foreman 1.3 on a Scientific Linux 6.4
> machine running Puppet 3.1.1. I'm new to Foreman, so I just ran the
> default installer with the following command and errors:
>
> # foreman-installer
> Could not set home on user[apache]: Execution of '/usr/sbin/usermod -d
> /var/www apache' returned 6: usermod: user 'apache' does not exist in
> /etc/passwd
> /Stage[main]/Apache::Config/User[apache]/home: change from
> /home/staff/apache to /var/www failed: Could not set home on
> user[apache]: Execution of '/usr/sbin/usermod -d /var/www apache'
> returned 6: usermod: user 'apache' does not exist in /etc/passwd
> Could not set shell on user[apache]: Execution of '/usr/sbin/usermod -s
> /sbin/nologin apache' returned 6: usermod: user 'apache' does not exist
> in /etc/passwd
> /Stage[main]/Apache::Config/User[apache]/shell: change from /bin/bash
> to /sbin/nologin failed: Could not set shell on user[apache]: Execution
> of '/usr/sbin/usermod -s /sbin/nologin apache' returned 6: usermod: user
> 'apache' does not exist in /etc/passwd
>
> I can't find any postings regarding this behavior; maybe somebody in
> this group knows what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for any time and help you
> can give!
–
Dominic Cleal
Red Hat Engineering
